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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.

Keith Richards

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Death Fame Kill Talent
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Day Demon Himself Myself
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDS

God Money Preach Tax
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Combination Experiment Life Personal Right
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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Bone Emotion Language Music Talk Word
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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Each Other Finding Friendship True
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Important Record Technology
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rush Stone Ultimate
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Finding Style Yourself
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Art Hear Musician Myself See
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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Age Growth Imagination Yourself
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Country Myself Place Room
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Drugs Myself Police Problem
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Death Disappointment Myself
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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Big Fear Game Special Yourself
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Money Myself Yourself
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Blue Deliver Kind Known Music Yourself

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